Tara Duggan has written for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1999, starting out as a culinary intern in the Food & Wine department’s test kitchen. A food writer and recipe developer, she covers home cooking, restaurants, food...

Tara Duggan has written for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1999, starting out as a culinary intern in the Food & Wine department’s test kitchen. A food writer and recipe developer, she covers home cooking, restaurants, food trends, sustainable agriculture and food policy, all with a Northern California focus. A graduate of the California Culinary Academy, Tara also creates and tests recipes for feature stories in the paper. For 11 years, she wrote The Working Cook, a quick-cooking recipe column that appeared biweekly in The Chronicle. She wrote a cookbook based on the column in 2006 and has since written three other cookbooks.